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19. Adenostegia palmata sp. nov. 
Low annual, 1-2 dm. high, branching divaricately from the 
base, sparsely hirsute throughout with short hairs; leaves 8-18 
mm. long, mostly incised, the lower sometimes entire; spike 5-10 
cm. long, dense, erect; floral bracts 12-18 mm. long, deeply 
parted into five to eight finger-like divisions, the middle division 
exceeding the others, three- to five-nerved, often reddish; calyx- 
leaf 11-15 mm. long, entire or bidentate; corolla 12-16 mm. long, 
conspicuous, tube longer than throat; stamens two, the upper pair 
lacking. [PLATE 10, FIG. 20; PLATE 12, FIG. 4.] 
TYPE LocaLity: In alkaline soil, overflowed lands at Tule near 
College City, Colusa County, California, June 17, 1916, Stinch- 
field 284. Typr, No. 70613 of the Dudley Herbarium. 
This species differs most conspicuously from A. mollis in its 
sparse pubescence and its deeply parted, palmate bracts. 
20. ADENOSTEGIA MARITIMA (Nutt.) Greene 
Cordylanthus maritimus Nutt.; Bentham in De Candolle, Prodr. 
To: 598. 1846; Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 7: 383; Wats. Bot. 
King’s Exped. 460; Gray, Bot. Calif. 1: 581; Gray, Syn. FI. 
2': 304; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Calif. ed. 2. 387. 
Chloropyron palustre Behr, Proc. Calif. Acad. 1: 61. 1855. 
Adenostegia maritima Greene, Pittonia 2: 181. 1891; Kuntze, Rev. 
Gen. 2: 457; Wettstein in Engler & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 
4°: 98; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Calif. 417; Abrams, FI. Los 
Angeles 372. : : 
Chloropyron maritima Heller, Muhlenbergia 3: 133. 1907. 
Decumbent annual, 2—3 dm. high, branching diffusely from the 
base or above, erect when young; stems puberulent, sometimes 
sparsely pubescent; floral bract 2-3 cm. long, pubescence varying 
from short-hairy to short-villous, I-nerved, broadly lanceolate or 
shallowly three-toothed, the lateral teeth the smaller; calyx-leaf 
12-15 mm. long, toothed at apex, the teeth scarcely 1 mm. long, 
covering as on bract; corolla 10-18 mm. long, covered with soft, 
short pubescence; stamens four, the upper pair with second cell 
imperfect or absent, the filaments glabrous; seeds 1-2 mm. long, 
deeply reticulate. [PLATE 10, Fic. 21.] 
This variable species has two intergrading forms. Around 
San Francisco Bay and to the northward the plant is, in general, 
twice as large as the Southern California form. Both of these 
